PMO official appointed to World Bank post

June 04, 2020 19:36

Senior bureaucrat Rajeev Topno, private secretary to the prime minister, has been appointed as senior advisor to the executive director, World Bank, in Washington, a personnel ministry order said on Thursday.

Topno, a 1996 batch IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre, will have a three-year tenure, it said.

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